The boy was cutting grass for a neighbor in Beaver County around 5 p.m. When he went to dump the clippings, he slipped and fell down the ravine, firefighters said. The homeowner saw the teen near the water and climbed down to stay with him until help came.

Firefighters had to rappel down the hill and had to carry the teen on a stretcher a quarter of a mile through a wooded path to an ambulance, officials said.

“Instead of bringing him up the hill, where he fell, it was a sharp slope that he went down and the opposite side was better for him to go out,” said Chief Bobby Charlovich of the Conway Fire Department.

It took two hours to get the boy to the ambulance, officials said.

“He could’ve been a lot worse than he is,” Charlovich said. “He was talking, but we don’t know the extent of his injuries at the moment.”